Untitled
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
This goddess, whose name means “she who loves silence,” combines the body of a cobra with the head of a woman. An animal with a human head is a common Egyptian artistic convention. As a local deity, Meretseger guarded the Valley of the Kings, where monarchs were entombed, and the village of craftsmen who worked there. Though a dangerous animal, her purpose was to protect the workers in the valley, and also sometimes to punish wrongdoers.
Caption
Cindy Sherman American, born 1954. Untitled, 1985. Chromogenic print, frame: 72 × 49 × 2 3/4 in. (182.9 × 124.5 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Frank L. Babbott Fund and Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 86.36. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.36_PS2.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Untitled
Date
1985
Medium
Chromogenic print
Classification
Dimensions
frame: 72 × 49 × 2 3/4 in. (182.9 × 124.5 × 7 cm)
Credit Line
Frank L. Babbott Fund and Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund
Accession Number
86.36
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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